May 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 9

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 21 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 25.

Saints

• Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, the "beloved disciple" of the Lord ()
• The holy group of Soldier Martyrs.
• Saint Augustina the Martyr, in Byzantium.
• Saint Agathius of Byzantium (Acacius) (303)
• Saint Emilia (375), mother of saints Macrina, Basil the Great, Naucratius, Peter of Sebaste, and Gregory of Nyssa.
• Saint Arsenius the Great, of Scetis (448)
• Saint Hierax (Ierakos) of Egypt (5th century)
• Saint Milles the Melodist (hymnographer), monk.

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Hieromartyr Dionysius of Vienne (193)
• Martyr Victor of Milan (Victor the Moor, Victor Maurus) ()
• Saint Helladius of Auxerre (387)
• Saint Gybrian (Gobrian) of Ireland, Priest (509)
• Saint Desideratus, successor of St Arcadius as Bishop of Bourges, in France (550)
• Saint Iduberga (Itta), foundress of Nivelles Abbey, Belgium (652)
• Saint Benedict II, Pope of Rome (685)
• Hieromartyr Indract of Glastonbury, and his companions at Shapwick (c. 7th or 8th century) <small>(see also: February 5)</small>
• Saints Wiro, Bishop of Utrecht (710), and Plechelm (730), missionary bishops, and Hierodeacon Otger (8th century), in the Maas Valley at Limburg.
• Saint Macarius of Ghent, Archbishop (1012)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Pimen the Faster, of the Far Caves in Kiev ()
• Venarable Cassian, recluse and faster of the Kiev Caves (13th-14th centuries)
• Saint Arsenius the Lover of Labor, of the Kiev Caves (14th century)
• Saints Zosima and Adrian of Volokolamsk, founders of the Sestrinsk monastery on the banks of the River Sestra (15th-16th centuries)
• Holy Georgian Martyrs of Persia (17th-18th centuries)

New martyrs and confessors

• Martyr Nicephorus Zaitsev (1942)

Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the miraculous healing of blinded Stephen by the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Cassiopia, Corfu (1530)
• Translation of the relics (1785) of St. Arsenius of Novgorod, Fool-for-Christ (1570)
• Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Michael of Valaam, Confessor for the Orthodox Calendar (1934)

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Notes

References

Sources

• May 8/21. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• May 21 / May 8. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• May 8. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• May 8. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 8. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 8 ΜΑΪΟΥ, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 8 ΜαΐοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• 21 мая (8 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 8 мая (ст.ст.) 21 мая 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).